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This platter starts in the pre-revolutionary time. At the beginning of the maintain, Johnny Tremain, is working as an apprentice to Mr. Lapham. Mr. Lapham is a blacksmith. Johnnys parents died in a fire several years before, and this is why he lived with the Laphams. He worked t here with enthusiasm for several years until he hurt his arm, scolding it in hot metal. After the accident, Mr. Lapham told Johnny that he needs to find a different profession, but he can go forward with the laphams. Johnny, after a lot of searching, finally finds a job retireing papers. While delivering papers he meets Rab, who works with him. Rab introduces him to the rebel underground. At that point Johnny agrees to deliver messages between the groups of rebels.This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didnt really captivate me in the sense that I couldnt put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started t o appreciate the precedents way of describing the characters and actions in this book.There are several things that I like about this book. First off, I love historical fiction, and this is the genre of this book. Also, patronage the author being too descriptive, the book went at a steady pace. For me, pace usually determines whether I will read the book or not, and I never really hesitated, or thought about changing books.This book was interesting to me, but I think that anyone older than I would find this book a slight bit easy, despite the fact that the author, Ester Forbes does use old English words that are no longer used. So I would exhort this book for anyone between the ages of 12-14, and strongly recommend it at that. Despite the book being well written, there are several parts that I would re-write here I will describe two of them. The first one is when Johnny hurts his hand by pouring hot metal on it.